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Sen. Jason Rapert had his big day last week. The Arkansas Legislative Council adopted his resolution criticizing Circuit Judge Chris Piazza for ruling that the Arkansas ban on same-sex marriage was a violation of constitutional equal protection and due process rights.

Circuit Judge Mike Maggio of Conway, who hopes to rise to the state Court of Appeals, has sent signals throughout his career and, since he announced for higher office, that he's a right-thinking Republican judge, conservative and no activist.

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Great way to remind us the people we're killing are actual human beings, not just some abstract "killer" we can dismiss from our minds as unimportant. I have no idea if Mr. Lee was guilty of the crime for which he was convicted, but I've seen enough to know we convict a lot of innocent people. Thanks for telling about this man's final hours.

This whole business is so wacky it defies belief. Even more incredible is when someone gets shot who would not have been but for its passage, the gun lobby will scream more guns were needed to have protected the victim.

One of the things that keep us from being a police state is the public's right to know how police operate. If they're doing something in public, the public has a right to film it. If there's any question about that, the law needs to be made perfectly clear.

The first amendment does apply to Facebook. Or at least rights under the First Amendment do. It's a private enterprise that can refuse to allow tripe if it wants to. The Senator thinks his position in the state government makes Facebook somehow answerable to him. The First Amendment says otherwise.

While I agree with the overall sentiment that society over-emphasizes sports, I have no problem with the UA's sports budget. The profit might be small, but it does make a profit. The only reason the profit isn't larger is that most sports generate no revenue. The "over-emphasized" sports--football, basketball & baseball--bring in much more revenue than they cost. Ticket revenues are only part of the total revenues those sports generate. The donations don't show up in ticket sales, but those sports are the ones that drive donations. Finally, the Razorbacks are good for commerce. That's a hidden benefit that doesn't show up in these figures. Hotels & restaurants are packed when they play at home. Tour companies along with convenience stores & restaurants along the route do booming businesses on game weekends. Everyone of their sales are taxed. Their profits are taxed. The Razorbacks do a lot for the entertainment & tourism industry in Arkansas, so unless those things are considered, any analysis of UA sports is incomplete.

Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys may have found an exit strategy for the growing controversy over player protests of racial inequities and Donald Trump's boorishness.

Donald Trump's response to the Puerto Rico (and Virgin Islands) disaster would doom any other president.

During their first year of desegregation at least 220 identifiable individuals from Central High’s near 2,000 enrollment showed their distaste for blacks in their school by stalking out of class, verbal abuse and/or physical assaults.